PART TWO... Famous People and Their Giving

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Directions: Choose three celebrities who are involved with acts of kindness. Here is a list to get you started. Complete the chart on the worksheet. You may use http://www.looktothestars.org/, a search engine (like Google), or a database (like Proquest Platinum), or some of the biographies of celebrities. Look at the bottom of thispage for an example of how to complete the chart. Think and read carefully! If you do not see any reason, you could tell whay that charity is important to our world.

Tracy McGrady

Bono

Patrick Dempsey

Will Smith

Julia Roberts

David Letterman

Stephen King

Jay Leno

Angelina Jolie

Kyle Petty

Justin Timberlake

Tiger Woods

Check out our example below...

Celebrity Name...	Cause/How they give...	Reason (personal background?)...
George Clooney	Darfur in Sudan: co-founded Not On Our Watch and contributed $500,000 to World Food Program to provide food, supplies and workers to this war torn area.	Before this financial support, this program was crippled by lack of money.

Other questions to think about...

Finally respond to this type of giving:
What do celebrities have to gain by giving to others?
How can their efforts make a positive difference for others?
Do you think these people have an obligation to give more than 'normal' people like you and me?